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Book Snatching — Clearly the most violent act in the history of reading
A little over two years ago, shortly after Total Boox entered the library market, NSR published a story written by Total Boox CEO and Founder, Yoav Lorch, on the absurdity of ebooks disappearing from...
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Placing a hold — Emotional adventures in the ebook catalog
NSR is pleased to present the second in a series of stories written by Yoav Lorch, Founder and CEO of Total Boox, on the irrationality of the ebook ‘situation’ in libraries. His first story, Book...
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Are you a ‘reader’ when listening to an audiobook? Yes, of course.
There is really no need to recite numerous reports that have come out recently correlating audiobooks with reading success of children and young adults. There is also no need to convince librarians and...
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What readers want [and what we are not giving them]
For the past many months, I’ve had the privilege of stepping outside the confines of the publishing and library industries (as well as the borders of the United States) to engage in projects that...
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The Best of NSR: Academic libraries are shrinking, while content is growing....
Originally published in the Fall of 2016, this opinion piece on the present and future of academic libraries remains one of the most read articles on NSR. Michael Zeoli (VP, YBP Library Services and...
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The Best of NSR: Technology is not the death of deep reading
In her opinion piece for No Shelf Required, Content and Media Editor at BiblioLabs Emilie Hancock argues that if we make even the smallest efforts to use technology as a means toward reading more, “we...
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The Best of NSR: Why education continues to fail digital content and students
In her opinion piece for NSR, Why education continues to fail digital content and students, CEO of learning technology company Metrodigi, Kathryn Stewart, calls for a “much-needed disruption” in...
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The Best of NSR: Reading by Ear [Why audiobook listening expands, rather than...
This opinion piece introduced a series of articles [by librarian Francisca Goldsmith], discussing audiobooks as a medium through which contemporary readers are invited to explore literary culture,...
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Dear librarians, please don’t move away from enabling reading
Before I tell librarians what not to do, I begin with the basic (and necessary) background on the author of this article. I am not a librarian, but I have spent two decades of my career as an editor...
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Not all libraries are created equal. What would the world be if they were?
According to an article I recently read in the New York Times, Merryl H. Tisch, the former chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, and her husband, James S. Tisch, the president and chief...
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Own Voices
We Need Diverse Books (#WNDB) has gained energy and publisher awareness since its launch in 2014. The proportion of published kids’ books continues to skew below parity for those by and about people of...
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Ten sites that give free access to quality ebooks librarians and publishers...
Since launching the Free Content Alerts column, which highlights sites and platforms where ebooks and econtent may be downloaded and read for free, we’ve brought to our readers’ attention 10 great...
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Reading by Ear: A superb collection of articles on audiobooks, audio...
A few months ago, NSR launched the Reading by Ear column, written by audiobook and audio literacy authority, librarian Francisca Goldsmith. The column discusses audiobooks as a medium through which...
View ArticleWatching You Watching Me: Preserving Reader Privacy in the Age of Digital...
The issue of reader privacy has been at the forefront of much debate about Web 2.0 technologies and their ability to monitor reading behavior at a granular level. This includes the reading habits of...
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